ILAC The International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation

IAF The International Accreditation Forum

Latest developments

50th CIML Meeting (18 - 22 Oct. 2015) – Arcachon, France

Laurent VINSON, ILAC/IAF-OIML Liaison Officer

ILAC and IAF Objectives

– To maintain the Arrangements, and to expand coverage into new economies ;

– To increase cooperation with all relevant stakeholders ; – To act as a central ‘hub’ to harmonise conformity

assessment best practice ; – To provide assistance to developing countries by

providing appropriate support to new accreditation activities.

Global Vision • A single worldwide programme of conformity assessment which

reduces risk for business, regulators and the consumer, by

ensuring that accredited services can be relied upon ;

• Government and Regulators relying on the IAF and ILAC

Arrangements to further develop or enhance trade agreements ;

• To support the freedom of world trade by eliminating technical

barriers, realising the free-trade goal of ‘tested, inspected or

certified once and accepted everywhere' .

ILAC – The Membership • ILAC is the oversight body for laboratory and

inspection body accreditation.

Full Members

Associates

Affiliates

Regional Cooperation Bodies

Stakeholders

IAF– The Membership • IAF is the oversight body in the fields of the

certification of management systems, personnel and products.

Accreditation Bodies

Certification Body Associations

Regional Cooperation Bodies

Industry Associations

Stakeholders and Scheme Owners

IAF / ILAC timeline

1977 – ILAC established

1996 – ILAC MOU

2000 ILAC MRA Testing &

Calibration

2001 1st Joint IAF-ILAC General Assembly

1993 – IAF established

1998 IAF MLA for

QMS IAF Bylaws

IAF Incorporated

2004 – IAF MLAs for EMS and Product

2003 - ILAC Incorporated

2012 ILAC MRA Inspection

The ILAC and IAF Arrangements – Accreditation body members deemed competent through

a peer evaluation process: – ISO/IEC 17011

– IAF-ILAC A series documents

– Signatories must recognise certificates, reports, and results issued by organisations accredited by other Signatories ;

– Provides business with assurance that overseas bodies operate to the same standard ;

– Removes technical barriers to trade by eliminating redundant conformity assessment.

Regional Cooperation Bodies • The IAF and ILAC Arrangements are structured to build on

existing and developing regional MLAs/MRAs established around the world

Asia Pacific Laboratory

Accreditation Cooperation

(APLAC)

European Cooperation

for Accreditation

(EA)

Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation

(IAAC)

Pacific Accreditation Cooperation

(PAC)

Southern African Development Community

Accreditation (SADCA)

• The IAF MLA currently recognises EA, PAC, IAAC • The ILAC MRA currently recognises EA, APLAC, IAAC

African Accreditation Cooperation

(AFRAC)

Arab Accreditation Cooperation

Status of the ILAC MRA (September 2015) – The ILAC network of members includes 150 bodies from

114 different economies (89 Full Members/MRA Signatories, 17 Associates, 13 Affiliates, 25 Stakeholders, 6 Regional Cooperation Bodies)

– 89 ILAC MRA Signatories representing 74 economies ;

– ILAC MRA covers testing, calibration and inspection ;

– Signatories represent about 95% of Global GDP ;

– More than 49,000 accredited laboratories ;

– Approximately 8,000 accredited inspection bodies.

Coverage of the ILAC MRA (September 2015)

ILAC MRA Signatories

ILAC Associate Members ILAC Affiliate Members

Status of the IAF MLA (September 2015) There are 60 IAF MLA Signatories, representing 55 economies

– Main Scope

– Management Systems : 54 Accreditation Bodies and EA, PAC & IAAC

– Product: 52 Accreditation Bodies and EA, PAC & IAAC

– Sub Scope Level 4

– GlobalG.A.P. IFA General Regulations: 26 Accreditation Bodies and EA,

PAC & IAAC

– Sub Scope Level 5

– ISO 9001 QMS : 54 Accreditation Bodies and EA, PAC & IAAC

– ISO 14001 EMS : 50 Accreditation Bodies and EA, PAC & IAAC

– GlobalG.A.P. IFA CPCCs: 26 Accreditation Bodies and EA, PAC & IAAC

– Accepting Applications: MDMS, FSMS, ISMS, Persons, GHG V&V

IAF MLA Signatories IAF Members not yet Signatories

Coverage of the IAF MLA (September 2015)

ACCREDITATION

CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT BODIES

PRODUCT & SERVICE PROVIDERS

Peer Evaluation

International Standards

Standards / Regulatory requirements / Scheme criteria

GOVERNMENT CONSUMERS PURCHASERS

CONFIDENCE TRUST ASSURANCE

The Benefits

For Government • Facilitator of trade • An efficient enforcement and monitoring tool

For Business • Greater acceptance of products and services • Avoid costs associated with repeat conformity assessment • Informed procurement

For Consumers • Public confidence in goods and services • Minimises product failures or recalls

Summary – Commitment to developing a harmonised global approach

for accreditation practices ;

– Maintaining the Arrangements to ensure equal reliability of accredited services ;

– Promoting greater acceptance by regulators and businesses to remove technical barriers to trade, and avoiding the need for duplicate certifications, testing or inspections ;

– Supporting developing economies to establish an accreditation infrastructure.

ILAC and OIML

• OIML-ILAC-IAF Memorandum of Understanding renewed in October 2014 in Vancouver :

• Joint work programme : Joint ILAC/OIML Assessment Procedure in

the field of Legal Metrology published in December 2014 ;

Review of the joint document OIML D10 / ILAC G24 “Guidelines for the determination of calibration intervals of measuring instruments”.

ILAC – IAF - OIML

• OECD: Better Rules of Globalisation – The IAF Chair Randy Dougherty, the ILAC Vice-Chair

Merih Malmqvist Nilsson, and Peter Mason of OIML attended an OECD meeting on “Fostering the Contribution of International Organisations to Better Rules of Globalisation” on 17 April 2015 in Paris.

Common denominators for ILAC – IAF and OIML

• Level playing field for all parties: producers and conformity assessment bodies ;

• Promotion of free trade – eliminating technical barriers to trade ;

• Conformity assessment ; • Traceability of measurements ; • Minimising costs and work load for the actors on the

market ; • Achieving market confidence.

Watt balance made of LEGO bricks created by Leon Chao from the US National Institute of Science and Technology and colleagues from the

University of Maryland and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Happy 60th Anniversary to the OIML !

Thanks for your attention For more information contact: For more information contact: The IAF Secretariat The ILAC Secretariat Elva Nilsen Annette Dever Box 1811 PO Box 7507 Chelsea, Quebec Silverwater Canada J9B 1A0 NSW 2128 Australia

Phone: +1 (613) 454 8159 Phone: +612 9736 8374 Email: secretary@iaf.nu Email: ilac@nata.com.au

www.iaf.nu www.ilac.org

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